DETECTIVES were today trying to find out what happened to an elderly woman whose body was found in a Coventry house after a burglary....

DETECTIVES were today trying to find out what happened to an elderly woman whose body was found in a Coventry house after a burglary.

The woman, who was in her 80s, was found in her lounge by a window cleaner who called at the house in Allesley Old Road, Chapelfields, on Monday.

Police today issued a plea for anyone with information to come forward after the discovery. They are treating the woman?s death as suspicious after a post-mortem examination proved inconclusive.

Detectives and forensic experts are still examining the house to try to establish how the woman died. She has yet to be formally identified.

Det Chief Insp John Larkin, from Little Park Street police station, said the investigation was focusing on whether the woman had died because of acts committed during the burglary, as a consequence of the burglary itself, or had died beforehand.

?The woman was last positively seen on December 23 and her body was discovered on New Year?s Eve.?

He said a window cleaner saw the front door was insecure and thought a burglary was going on. He went in to confront raiders, but found the woman dead on the floor.

Detectives are urging anyone who may have seen any suspicious activity in the area over the past week to call them.

Det Chief Insp Larkin said: ?We are appealing to anyone with information on burglaries committed in this area, particularly those targeting elderly people, to come forward.?

The woman?s body was discovered days after two thieves attacked a blind pensioner in his Coventry home, and stole his life savings.

The 79-year-old victim died two days after the raid in Wyken Croft, Wyken.